Very well-said, Jan.
“Marriage is for homos” as my neighbor likes to say.
“And I would rather be alone, successful and happy than in a relationship where I’m not happy. ... I’m OK being single forever. As long as I’m happy.”
Jackie’s 21 and, like most people in the springtime of their lives, she thinks she is immortal. Check in with her again in 15-20 years. She needs to mature and hit a few of life’s speed bumps before she begins to understand what really matters...and what really doesn’t.
I find an interview with someone like her to be pretty worthless anyway. Too soon to have acquired any wisdom and too close to the institution that stuffed her mind full of wrongheadedness.